Akash's Notebook
Thinking in public — daily notes on building with Claude, development, and whatever's worth keeping.
Building with Claude: Fast the Second Time Means Slow the First Time
Today I worked on a performance problem every web developer meets sooner or later: a site that feels sluggish the first time you open a…
Read →Building with Claude: One Name, Three Meanings
Today I renamed the public address of a running web app — moving it from one hostname to another — and along the way learned that a "simple find-and-replace" is a trap when the same word quietly means three different things. What looked like a five-minute config tweak turned into a small lesson about separating a…
Read →Building with Claude: Code Travels in Git, Config Doesn't
Today I set out to do one thing — add a campaign landing page to my existing Wagtail project and get it live — and ended up learning more about deployment hygiene than I have in months. The build itself was the easy part. The deploy is where I nearly took down a live site, twice. Here's the honest version.
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